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put effort into making it work. >> my husband and i have been married 48 years. the answer to the question is both. but you must be best friends from the beginning. thanks to everyone who responded. >> we certainly hope you have a great day. "fox & friends" starts now. >>gretchen: good morning. it is monday, may 20, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. thank you for sharing your time with us today. fox news alert. >> oh, my god! oh my god! >> i'm all over it! >>gretchen: deadly twisters ripped through five states destroying neighborhoods and lives. we're live on the ground in one of the hardest hit areas. >>steve: this white house advisor in full spin mode saying i.r.s. and benghazi aren't scandals, and he doesn't know the details because they're not relevant. like the law: not relevant. but he does know one thing.
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it's the republicans' fault. >>brian: taylor swift is the big winner from last night's billboard awards. listen. ♪ >>brian: justin bieber not so lucky. i could not get any rest when i heard this news. why was he booed. booed? suck it up, man. "fox & friends" starts now. ♪ ♪ >>steve: we start with a fox news alert. >> oh my god! >> that's damage! >> i'm all over it! >> watch out guys. windows up! >>steve: roll up the windows. storm catchers capturing
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amazing footage of deadly twisters ripping through america's heartland. one of the hardest hit areas. shawnee, oklahoma. >>gretchen: take a look at devastation. violent storms scattering trucks and cars like they were toys. police finding a 79-year-old man dead out in the open. our fox news chief meteorologist joins us on the phone. rick, i know you're in transport right now trying to get to the scene. but you have obviously seen some of these pictures of devastation. >> those images yesterday were so frightening. these tornadoes happening right around oklahoma city, which is a town that is probably better prepared and has some of the best meteorologists around. then these live pictures of tornadoes were really spectacular and frightening at the same time.
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and then seeing the devastation and the damage it did to these towns. shawnee, the worst of it. the towns to the north of oklahoma city also damaged. we flew into kansas city. it is about a 400-mile drive. we're about another 100 miles away to be able to be there for you, about an hour and a half or so to show you the pictures live on the ground in shawnee. >>steve: you've been driving for hours. i understand today is going to be another hot day for tornadoes as well; right? >> i tell you three days in a row we received a moderate risk of severe weather. that's an elevated risk and very significant and all here in the heartland. yesterday or the day before yesterday, i guess, it was in west texas, west oklahoma. then yesterday it was in east kansas and east oklahoma. and today it's again going to be in that same spot. exactly in shawnee and that oklahoma city area is again
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under the bull's eye. one other area getting very close to it is down towards dallas. remember, it was about five days ago we saw the tornado that killed six people around dallas. that area under threat again today as well. >>gretchen: i've been there to cover f-5 tornadoes myself. oklahoma city always seems to be somehow in the middle of the worst possible weather. rick, thanks so much. new overnight, hot air balloon goes down and the deadly crash caught on camera. two balloons slammed into each other during a sight seeing tour in turkey. we know one person has died. 24 other people are hurt. another hot air balloon caught fire and crashed a few months ago in egypt leaving 19 people dead. an extraordinary number of car bombs detonated in iraq leaving 34 people dead. more than 100 people are injured. nine bombs went off in baghdad striking bus stops and marketplaces during busy morning hours.
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two more bombs went off in the southern city of basra, one near a restaurant. no one claiming responsibility yet but the blasts barrett hallmarks of al qaeda. new video this morning shows what happened after those two trains crashed in connecticut. >> check that out. the track, it's off the track. >>gretchen: brian alvarez was scathe boarding -- was skate boarding nearby and captured what happened moments after on his cell phone. passengers being carried to safety. at least 76 people were hurt. rail service shut down. drivers being warned a travel nightmare is approaching. >> our 30,000 daily commuters whose trips will be disrupted because of this accident. if all of those were to get on the highway and single occupancy cars, we would literally have a parking lot. >>gretchen: that's what we're expecting in connecticut.
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repairs could take all week. music's biggest stars turned out for the billboard music awards last night and one star was red hot. ♪ ♪ >>gretchen: taylor swift again the big winner walking away with eight awards including the night's top award, artist of the year. >> to the fans who come to the shows to buy the albums, i just want you to know this one thing: you are the longest and best relationship i have ever had. >>gretchen: very funny. of course she's had a lot of dating relationships recently. that's why she said that. justin bieber had a big neat winning three awards but cheers were mixed with boos when he picked up his awards.
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>> this is not a gimmick. i'm an artist and i should be taking it seriously. >> why were they booing? another big winner was rihanna. she swept four r&b categories. is that because he's had recent news events. >>brian: he's been a clown the entire year. the more fame he got, the bigger idiot. >>steve: i think he was talking about his craft. not just a singer, but a craft. >>brian: did you pick up the new york city times? "the new york times" "wall street journal" was able to fire up on the big i.r.s. situation which is really blossoming into a scandal. miller's presentation, the assumed to be former acting director of the i.r.s., one of the biggest insults to the american people you could see when this guy says the word target is not accurate. i don't think we did anything illegal. we did bad customer service and there was no politics involved in targeting the tea party people?
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no politics. it happened to be all in one category. >>gretchen: he didn't bring any notes either. >>brian: because he didn't want to know anything. >>steve: then he would have to say something. >>brian: we don't know who told him to do that. the questions were concise, right to the point for a change. now we want to find out when the president knew about it, just out of curiosity. was he really surprised on that thursday when the story leaked out? according to dan phi tper tper -- dan pfeiffer yesterday, the answer is yesterday. we know for sure the chief white house counsel learned last month the treasury inspector concluded what they concluded, and that is they targeted tea party people. either they have the worst communication, interoffice mail ever or the president and somebody else is not tell the truth. >> catherine rumbler is the white house chief counsel so that is extraordinary for her to know a month ahead of time.
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this is the same time that jack lew, now the treasury secretary and used to be the chief of staff for the president was taken aside by the inspector general for the treasury department saying this is what we found out. they found out last month. we heard on friday from the inspector general, mr. george, that the administration officials found out that there was an audit underway, the suggestion that the i.r.s. was targeting tea party organizations five months before the election. think about that. five months before the election people in the administration knew that there was an investigation. >>gretchen: this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of these other i.r.s. allegations we've heard about. in fact, we're going to have one of the guests coming up in this hour who was a big mitt romney supporter, gave $1 million to his campaign, and he ended up having three audits. he's been in business for years and years; never been audited before. i think we're just scratching the surface about tea party organizations being
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targeted. what about republican supporters? what about billy graham? what about the pro-israeli organizations who also say that they were targeted? could it really be mid-level bureaucrats would dream up this idea to target tea party? could it really be that steven miller on friday couldn't remember any names of the people who told him to potentially do this? i mean, that was the most offensive speech. we all know from being an employee anywhere that when you do a certain action, you remember who told you to do it. >>steve: whoever dreamed up this idea, you know, today, that person is haunted by the fact that they sent dan pfeiffer, senior advisor to the president. they put him on five sunday shows like they did with susan rice and his performance was atrocious. we've got a couple of sound bites to play.
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here he is talking about the i.r.s. scandal where he talks about how the law is irrelevant. >> the law here -- the law is irrelevant. the activity was inexcusable and it was stopped. it needs to be fixed to ensure it never happens again. >>brian: on benghazi, he says the talking points revealed revealed the c.i.a. changed the talking points. yes, if you're on another planet and didn't see the stripe in the word general petraeus saw. but we're supposed to believe that? he sat down with fox news sunday's chris wallace and asked by the way, where was the president on this. listen. >> he was talking to his national security staff, his national security counsel who keep him up to date about these things. >> was he in the situation room? >> he was kept up to date throughout the day. >> do you know not know if he was in the situation room? >> i don't remember what room he was in on that
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night. that is a largely irrelevant fact. >>gretchen: he was in the situation room when osama bin laden was being taken down and we saw those pictures released immediately. they know where the president was on the night of benghazi. >>brian: gretch, that is irrelevant. who gave the standdown? >>steve: irrelevant, brian. they're going to make sure it never happens again. >>brian: was he in the vestibule, foyer or in the hall? the situation room is a secure room. they have done a tv series about the situation room. the situation room -- >>steve: wolf blitzer had a career based on the situation room. to show how bad it got for dan pfeiffer that at one point bob schieffer said why am i talking to you because he did no help to the president of the united states. >>gretchen: it brings you back to why did they have susan rice do those five talk shows?
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these are people who are not at the top of the food chain, and there's a reason for that, folks. there's a reason why they send out -- >>steve: they sent this guy out, they said, to clarify the situation. unfortunately he has made it worse. >>brian: next, a school banning the celebration of mother's and father's day because it might make some kids feel bad. >>gretchen: this woman targeted conservatives, but did she also protect liberals? stuart varney with the s selena gomez from last night's billboard awards. ♪ ♪ the great outdoors...
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>> we know lois lerner attacked conservatives, targeted conservative groups. there is another side to this coin. at the same time was she protecting liberal groups from any action against their tax-exempt status. witness the humane society. we know the humane society because it has these ads on television. animal shelters. they're really good ads. they make you want to cry when you see them. they only spend 1% of their money that they bring in on those animal shelters. the rest goes to huge political lobbying operation in washington where they attack farmers who got cows, sheep, goats, pigs, you name it. they attack farmers and essentially protect vegetarian and vegan lifestyle. it is a heavily political operation. a congress person three years ago said wait a minute, take a look at the humane society, please, you
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in the i.r.s. and that tax-exempt office. that congressman, blaine lukemyer got no response for three years. the spokesman said they were totally unresponsive for a three-year period. that raises the question were they in fact protecting liberal groups when their tax-exempt status was questioned. at the same time they were attacking conservative groups. >>brian: the only way to find out that answer is to investigate on your own to find out if the i.r.s. missed that on coming train of obviousness. >> as steve said a moment ago, we're looking for any conservative group that was protected by the i.r.s. we're looking in vain. >>steve: there's also a possibility that perhaps she was protecting the humane society simply because she was a member. >> in very high stand in the humane society. >>brian: 9:20 we watch stuart varney kick off a brand-new week on a brand-new show. >> another high week for
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>>gretchen: one lucky floridian nearly $600 million today after winning
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the massive powerball jackpot. since florida laws demands the person come forward, the person's identity won't stay secret for long. the florida has no state income tax. the winner can take installments or a lump sum of $376.9 million, $282.7 million after taxes. joining us live is alcid he s. >> good morning. millions of people played but the winner actually walked out of that publix here in zephyr hills and we'll likely know the winner at some point today. let's put this in perspective. $590.5 million. the budget for the city of zephyr hills is a little more than $49 million. the jackpot is about 12 times that. the city is about 45 minutes northeast of tampa. it is known for its water and skydiving. now it's home to the largest powerball winner in
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history. the winner has a big decision here. either take the annuity or lump sum. if he or she takes all that money at once, they could buy the tampa bay lightning, the hockey franchise here or the st. louis blues. you could bite -- buy the most expensive home on the market for $190 million and have a lot of money left. we were discussing what would we do with that money if we would have won. here's what i would have done about $1 million per relative in my family. 15% goes to the church. and co-workers would receive about $50,000. about 15 to 20 co-workers $50,000. gretchen, i've never met you before, but i'm thinking you would have done the same thing. i don't know. >>gretchen: you have a very altruistic heart this morning. hats off to you. yes, i probably would do exactly the same. thanks so much for that very empathetic report. hats off to the winner too.
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i'm jealous. >>brian: after undergoing a leg amputation after a grenade explosion in 2005, one army ranger became the first in history to return to combat in afghanistan with just one leg or even back to war. since then he led a squad, saved a wounded soldier and an ongoing inspiration to anyone who claims they are an american. joining us now is that remarkable man, army ranger and the author of this newly released book "back in the fight" along with his new wife. she wrote clap terse in the book and helped him do this. welcome to both of you. after 9/11, you know what you're doing. you're joining. why? >> i actually enlisted in the delayed entry program my senior year in high school may, september 11
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happened, a week later i was in basic training. it was a great time to join and be in the military. >>brian: you were a great athlete, wrestler, they see it. you become an army ranger. 2005 a grenade comes into your humvee and blows off your leg. >> we were going underneath an overpass. we were ambushed above. we took grenades and small arms fire. everyone in the vehicle got beat up pretty bad. >>brian: what was he like when he came home? >> quiet. no matter what happened, he always wanted to go back and be a ranger and continue to be a squad leader. >>brian: when you tried to hold on to the leg for a year and a half, you can't do it. you say it's so painful, let's get rid of it and get a prosthetic. then you say i want to go back to the fight. they say it's never been done before. why do you want to go back to a fight? >> it comes down to the guys you serve with, the guy on your left and the guy on your right. we have great camaderie and we have a lot of fun and believe in what we're doing. >>brian: and you have two boys at home, kimberly.
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any thoughts of not supporting this effort, saying i almost lost you once; not again. >> thr-fpb times i feel -- there have been times i feel that way. but at the end of the day it's what he's always wanted so it's not an option. >>brian: you go back into the fight. you volunteer to take out some snipers who ambushed your guys. you cut off the enemy at the pass, you write. you were caught in an avalanche of loose shale. to stop your fall and save yourself, you grab a tree and came face-to-face with one of the taliban snipers who have been hiding behind it. with your free hand, what did you do? >> we eliminated him. >>brian: you eliminated him? >> yes, sir. >>brian: this is like "rambo" stuff. >> that was a really great mission. the whole entire platoon got plenty of action. it was great to see a ranger platoon react to contact and close and then destroy the enemy.
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>>brian: how proud are you of him? >> unbelievable. can't even describe it. >>brian: fun writing the book? >> it was harder than i thought it would be and i learned a lot about my husband through reading edits. i didn't know most of the stuff. i didn't know about chapter one until i read the book. >>brian: start working on the script because i want to watch a movie like this. you're still active and you're still in. i look forward to the next chapter. but you have to stay safe. is that possible? >> of course. >>brian: good job. you've got to get this book. want to do something for memorial day, gets "back in the fight." joe and kimberly, thanks so much. thanks for your service. alert the p.c. police. one school is banning the celebration of mother's and father's day because some kids might be sad. they put their lives on the line to capture these incredible pictures. the tornado chasing husband and wife all night to follow the storm, they will be up next.
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good morning to you. bright and early in oklahoma. >> good morning to you all. >>gretchen: we're looking at the video you were shooting here. describe how close you actually get to these storms. how do you know where to go to capture the best video? >> we have tornado tracking videos. we know if it is going to be an explosive day west of wichita. the first storm went out and we intercepted southwest of wichita and dropped down in oklahoma. >>steve: catherine, some of them yesterday were a little dicey because they were wrapped in rain. you couldn't see the funnel per se because there was a great big deluge around it. >> exactly. that was the case with most of the tornadoes yesterday. they were wrapped in rain, difficult to see. you couldn't even see them coming, the people that suffered damage. >>steve: that's dangerous because you don't know if you're getting too close to it. it might be on the other
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side of where it's raining. >> that's true. exactly right. >>brian: could you sense the devastation beside the mammoth tornado coming your way? could you actually see the damage it was doing? >> yes, we could. one of the most amazing things, the long track trail, the track northeast towards tulsa, we were 20 miles from the tornado coming down toward the torpbd. as we got -- down toward the tornado. as we got in toward the tornado, it was raining debris 20 miles ahead of tornado. absolutely incredible. >>steve: raining debris 20 miles ahead of storm? >> that is correct. >>gretchen: have you ever seen that before? >> yes. >>gretchen: were these f-1 category? >> the weather service in wichita and oklahoma city doing damage surveys this morning. the teams were out 30 minutes ahead of day break. the one in shawnee and the
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northeast side of oklahoma city are going to be on the significant category meaning ef-3, ef-4, maybe ef-5. >>brian: how close do you guys get? >> you've got to stay back. today we're going to have another situation where we'll have a risk of severe weather here in oklahoma city. the state got affected yesterday. it will have another outbreak this afternoon. oklahoma city, shawnee, tulsa, ardmore, the fear of tornadoes today starting around 3:00. >>steve: they have been doing it for 30 years. they were up late last night but up early this morning with us. we thank you for joining us live on the phone today from your motel there in oklahoma. >> thank you. >>brian: straight ahead, the midwest is not in the
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clear just yet. more tornadoes expected to wreak havoc today. maria molina in the extreme weather center is tracking the storms for us. what's the yellow and red behind you? >> good morning. like you just heard jeff mention, we have a moderate risk out issued by the storm prediction center. there is a higher risk than usual to see tornadic activity including parts of oklahoma, already hit hard yesterday with tornadoes. if you remember last week we had tornadoes across parts of granbury and north central texas. that area could again see severe weather today. a widespread area that could see strong to severe thunderstorms from texas up to the great lakes. the storm system is a very slow move. areas that already saw severe weather and heavy rain from the thunderstorms could produce flash flooding from oklahoma up to wisconsin. that is something else we'll be keeping an eye on.
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of course the storm heads east tomorrow and wednesday. more severe storms possible. >>gretchen: that time of year. thanks so much, maria molina. your headlines. a man out to enjoy a broadway show ends up falling out a heater window. he was leaning against a curtain covering the window of a french door. the door opened and the men tumbled out and fell about four feet luckily landing on the marquee out front. fire fighters used a ladder and bucket to rescue the man. he was not seriously hurt. >>brian: new audio released from police radios from that moment after a hostage student was shot and killed this weekend. >> [inaudible] the hostages and the gun. >>brian: the officer who shot andrea as he tried to save her is inconsolable. the cop is a 19 year police veteran and the father of two young children. sources say he blames
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himself. he fired eight shots. he hit the suspect eight time, one hit andrea. by the way, this guy was wanted on parole violation and he just got out of prison for robbery. >>steve: a british guy had his prostate removed after learning he has the same gene that made angelina jolie have a double mastectomy. the guy discovered he had the brca2 gene after taking part in a clinical trial. while he showed zero signs of cancer, doctors agreed to remove his healthy prostate after learning his family has a history of breast and prostate cancer. angelina jolie announced she had a double mastectomy after testing positive for the brca-1 gene. >>gretchen: thanks to the p.c. police one school in canada banned celebrating mother's and father's day. why? because it may make some kids field bad. -- feel bad.
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the school said it is unfair because some kids have two moms and one dad or one parent. the school says it will have an international day of family instead. >>steve: we are family and that's why brian's got sports for us. >>brian: i'll be willie stargell. look it up. basketball, spurs not wasting time. they killed the grizzlies 105-83. tony parker, who is from france led the way 20 points to 9. game 2 is tomorrow night. now your typical newly wed fans -- fans are sending rg iii gifts from his wedding registry. the football star taking to twitter to show appreciation. he says thank you to fans buying all the items from our wedding registry at bed bath and beyond. he will marry his fiancee july 7. >> a pretty special prom
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surprise. nba star showed up at a high school prom. she tweeted nba several times inviting him to the dance. wade says the teen's persistence finally won him over. there you go. wade said he was glad the heat had a night off the court so he could actually go. how cool is that? >>steve: that is awesome. straight ahead on this monday morning, more people coming forward to say the i.r.s. targeted me. a private citizen audited three times he says simply because he supported mitt romney. >>gretchen: forget bomb-sniffing dog, the u.s. navy using dolphins to track down explosives. you won't believe what they just found at the bottom of the sea. >>brian: more from last
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>>steve: time for quick headlines. united airlines 787 dream liners are going to take to the sky once again today after being grounded four months by the federal government. the decision to stop the 787 flight came after battery malfunctions plagued a number of dream liners owned by other airlines. an amazing discovery by dolphins off the california coast. they found a 19th century torpedo called the howell. only one other is known to exist. the dolphins were being trained by the navy to find undersea mines. >>gretchen: the i.r.s. says its targeting of tea party and conservative groups was not political, but our next guest was audited three times recently, he says for supporting mitt romney. joining me is the c.e.o. is mellaluca. thank you for coming in. you gave $1 million to the
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mitt romney campaign. after that, the president's campaign came after you saying that you were on the wrong side of the law and that you had a less than reputable record. >> it said that about eight of us. out of thousands of donors, hundreds of thousands of donors to mitt romney's campaign, president obama's campaign said, the most effective thing we can do is pick out eight of these guys and put them up there and see what happens to them. i was one of the eight. >>gretchen: after that happened you were audited. had you ever been audited before by the i.r.s. out of all the years of doing business. >> once out of 30-something years. >> you were then audited in 2008, 2009 and 2012. >> the audit came out in 2012 after the president's enemies list came out on his website. but we were audited for 2008, 2009 and 2010. then we had a department of labor audit also on one of
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our businesses. >>gretchen: coincidence or because you are on the president's enemy list and because you supported mitt romney? >> we don't know. we don't know. it's a set of circumstances where these audits came immediately within weeks after the president's list, enemy's list came out on his campaign website. after being targeted, we got audited. that's all we know. we don't know for sure if there was a connection. i think it is important to discern what we know versus what we fear. what we know is we got targeted. we got targeted with slurs that were totally untrue about us. on the wrong side of the law. less than reputable records. i'm not sure what those things mean but it wasn't true about me and i don't think it was true about any of us. after that came the audits. that's all we know. >>gretchen: we should mention you passed all the audits but it cost you $80,000. >> no fines, no penalties but it is expensive to go through an audit. >>gretchen: when you hear
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the president's spokesperson yesterday on five sunday talk shows saying looking into this is irrelevant, that we should just move forward and the g.o.p. is making this a political game, what's your response? >> i think we should look into these things. we've heard some people say that this is third world country tactics to go after your opponents to try to destroy their lives, destroy their reputations. wherever this is coming from, whoever is deciding to do this, we need to find out. and i think there needs to be an accountability for whether the president is involved -- you know, responsible or whether someone under him is responsible. i think it's a bad thing for our country to be going down that road to where we can't speak up, we can't say who we believe in or what we believe in without being targeted as the enemy. i think this idea of let's destroy the messenger is a bad place for america to be going. >>gretchen: something called the first amendment. frank vandersloot, thank
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>> oh, my god! oh, my god! oh, my god! >> steve: that scene from the movie, "it could happen to you"
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where a cop shares his lotto winning with a waitress. >> brian: our next guest did receive a generous tip from one of her loyal customers, on a $6 tab, she received a $446 tip. >> steve: that's better than 15% cece, good morning to you from indianapolis. >> good morning. thank you. >> steve: tell us what happened. >> just a typical morningful the regular customer, she comes in every once in a while, typical morning, you know. i was having a hard time at another table, but she just watched and sat back and laughed. you know. i guess she got a little enjoyment out of it. when she left, she asked me what were they thinking? she left me a ridiculously large tip and i said, well, i'm not sure. i have to see if the -- get the
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manager. when i first looked at it, my initial thought was that it was like $46 and when i moved my finger, i seen $446 and i said oh, my god, that's really generous. and we had this little argument about i told her i wouldn't accept it and she said, you're going to take it. yeah. she was an awesome lady. >> brian: you have four kids and about to get married and you're fiance doesn't have a job, so this comes at a great time, right? >> oh, yes. >> steve: why did you she she gave you the tip on the $6 bill? >> god had to place it on her heart. he had to. i'm not exactly sure, but i thank her for it. >> brian: i tell you what, there is an excellent chance you've been giving excellent service and you used that opportunity to bond with her.
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that's my hunch. >> yeah. >> steve: you got a full time there and you're a full time student and you got your hands full at home. congratulations, cece bruce, really big tip out there in indianapolis. that's great. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> brian: go get them. it was supposed to be a victory for homeowners who were foreclosed on by mistake. one problem, the banks are taking their time paying off. >> steve: and there is a new "celebrity apprentice" winner. is it trace or penn? donald trump here live to weigh in on his new employee. the new apprentice. >> brian: that was a great final d. >> steve: best ever. >> brian: very tall finalists. ♪ used a contractor before
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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. today is monday, may 20, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time with us today. fox news alert for you this morning. >> oh, my god! >> oh, my god! it's damaged! >> i'm all over it! >> gretchen: deadly twisters ripped through five states, destroying entire neighborhoods and lives and it's not over yet. more could be coming today. we're live on the ground in one of the hardest hit areas. >> steve: meanwhile, one white house aide, three scandals and five sunday shows. what came out of it? well, the spokesperson said laws, irrelevant. will the american people buy it or is the administration spinning out of control? donald trump is here to weigh in on that and the apprentice. >> brian: i think he got off the air two hours ago. and the juice is loose. o.j.'s conviction could be overturned today and he already has a plan for make some money by talking to children. "fox & friends" starts now.
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>> gretchen: get right to that fox news alert on the storms this morning. >> oh, my god! >> that's damaged! >> watch out! window's up! >> gretchen: amazing video storm catchers catching this incredible twister. one of the worst hit city, shawnee, oklahoma, 35 miles southeast of oklahoma city. >> brian: look at this devastation. the storm tossing trucks, cars like toys, completely reducing neighborhoods to rubble. a 79-year-old man did not make it. he is dead. and dozens more are injured. >> steve: take a look at that. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is 50 miles
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outside of shawnee, oklahoma. we're looking at am so of the chopper shots before the sun went down. it's total devastation in certain parts. >> yeah. that town is right along interstate 40 and parts of it had so much debris on it that it had to be closed down at times and there were cars trapped on it watching the tornado cut over. the town, horrible damage, obviously. they're crediting the relatively but low level of loss of life because of the early warning and the local media here in oklahoma city were all over this storm and warning people, primarily that hit a trailer park. if you're in a trailer, there is no safe place in a trailer during a tornado, especially a tornado of that size and strength. so people had the warning to get out of there. that's the only option. today i can tell you, driving in right now, it is really humid. the detroit is -- doupoint is
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high. that means we're going to be seeing a really volumetive situation here against today. the exact same spot where we saw these big tornadoes yesterday under the threat for major tornadoes again today. two days in a row. >> steve: it's interesting that you would say that -- i mean, we were watching here on the fox news channel the coverage from the local helicopters there in oklahoma. so you're saying that the fact that we were able to see them coming for so long, people were able to get out of the way and in particular, in that trailer park? >> yeah, exactly. the worst thing you want in a tornado is some of these tornado es that start so quickly. joplin, for example, developed so quickly and within nine minutes, of it that monster ef-5 tornado. these tornadoes we've seen the last couple days in the plains, they've been either two days ago they were in far western parts of kansas and oklahoma where there is not much that population.
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there is also as you know, steve, in west kansas, not a lot of trees and no hills, so you have a broad view of the tornadoes. yesterday, getting out here to the okay o'clock city area, a little more trees and hills. but it was also right by a big city of oklahoma city where you had that good visual sighting and people had a lot of warning on this one. >> gretchen: rick is going to be on the scene for news a couple of minutes. we will have live reports from him. hopefully when he's on the ground there. thanks. >> steve: by the way, the governor of oklahoma has declared a state of emergency in 16 oklahoma counties. that goes to show you how bad it is out there. >> gretchen: the other headlines for monday. a hot air balloon goes down and the crash is caught on camera. two balloons smashed into each other in turkey. one balloon plunged to the ground. we know one person died. 24 others hurt. another hot air balloon caught fire and crashed just a few months ago in egypt, leaving 19 people dead.
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new video taking moments after two commuter trains collided in connecticut on friday. >> check that out. the track, like it's off the track. >> gretchen: a witness captured the tense moments on camera during friday rush hour. at least 76 people were hurt. no one was killed. traffic still delayed this week while crews cleaned up the wreckage. o. j. simpson going to cash in if he's released from prison. the former football star reportedly already planning a speaking tour to make some green. he currently is serving a 33-year sentence for his role in a hotel heist in 2008. a judge could decide whether or not to overturn that sentence as early as today. taylor swift was red rock at the billboard music awards last night. ♪ waiting for you
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>> gretchen: she was the big winner walking away with eight awards, including artist of the year. she thanked her fans for loving music about her crazy emotions. singer miguel gets too close to a fan. ♪ >> gretchen: he tried to make a jump from one stage to another and land on a fan's head! she was quickly whisked away and checked out. he later tweeted he got caught up in the moment, but the woman was okay. maybe his pants are too tight to make that leap. >> brian: right. >> gretchen: i'm going with that. >> brian: no one got hurt in the "celebrity apprentice" last night. right, donald trump? >> that's right. boy, that looked pretty bad, that jump he made. >> brian: trace adkins would never do that. >> no. >> steve: spoiler alert in two minutes, we will reveal who won on last night's "celebrity
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apprentice." i think the finale was the best ever. first, we want you to weigh in on the lousy week that the administration has been having. mr. trump, yesterday senior advisor for the add m, dan pheiffer, went on five sunday shows and several times said that the law is irrelevant. >> brian: where the president was, was irrelevant. >> steve: yeah. the irs, irrelevant. >> brian: your thoughts? >> well, i watched and everything was irrelevant and he was on every show. you couldn't turn on television without watching. the sad part is that we're a mess. we've got three scandals. they're really bad scandals potentially unbelievable. i guess from a lot of standpoints, the least may be you and the media feel differently, but the ap scandal would be the least of maybe most of the public. but i want to tell you, the liberal media is really angry over the ap scandal. probably more so than the other two. >> steve: plus that whole first amendment thing. >> it's a little bit of a thing called first amendment.
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but i've never seen the media react to anything the way they did that one. but the irs, like it's terrible. you have another one coming up. you have a fourth. that will be obamacare because nobody can implement it. how it'sss. going to be implemented. >> gretchen: that's true. that is also intertwined with the irs because they would be in charge of an arm of enforcing that. what do you make of the fact that they send out dan pheiffer, though? where is the chief of staff? where are the high ranking individuals who could really potentially answer questions about where the president was the night of benghazi, who ordered the stand down for the military, how much did the white house know about the irs scandal, et cetera? >> and also how badly, i mean, not only killed, but the way he was killed. i hear stories from friends of mine in washington that are just unbelievable about the ambassador, what he had to endure prior to his death and maybe even after his death frankly because what he went through. it was just so bad. it just seems there was no
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retribution whatsoever. we didn't do anything. >> brian: we still haven't. it's like in the middle of a scandal, it's like you sending out mary lieu henner to handle something with trump industries. >> she's very capable. she did a great job. >> brian: last night, you managed to put in like you have the tension of not knowing who won, a look back at the series, but you also gave back. i don't know how, between industry and charity, this thing is a win-win-win, this "celebrity apprentice". >> we raised $13 million, more than that, for charities, various charities overt few seasons. it's really been amazing. so many charities benefited. last night we gave a lot of money to little john for diabetes, which his mother died recently of it. and he's a terrific guy, too. so we just had a great year. we had a great season. so much money goes to charity. >> steve: we're looking at tim tebow showed up and presented a couple hundred thousand dollars for trace adkins. spoiler alert.
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it was down between penn gillette and trace adkins and the winner was? >> the winner -- am i supposed to tell you? >> steve: go ahead. >> the winner was trace. he was fantastic. he raised the most money for his charity, which was the american red cross. he was outstanding in every way, a solid guy, great solid citizen, as you know, because he's a big fox fan of the you know that, right? >> gretchen: he was just here friday. >> wow. i didn't know that. >> gretchen: he was just here and he predicted that he would be the winner. let's listen. >> i thought the first day when i got on the set and i kind of perused the cast, i thought if i'm going to win this thing, which is what i came here to do, i'm going to have to go through him. >> gretchen: he's talking about penn because he said he was formidable force. donald, quickly about what was it to make the final decision about trace? >> i think it was overall. he was outstanding in every way, solid as a wrong again, he raised a tremendous amount of money for charity, which in his
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case was the american red cross, a terrific group of people. i was very happy to announce him. another great winner was little john. he was fantastic. he could have been in the finals and he did very well last night because we gave him a lot of money, over $100,000 or $100,000 for his charity, which is diabetes. we had an amazing season and again, raised tremendous money for charity. >> brian: can you tell us anybody for next season? >> we're casting right now. it will be announced in a few months and we have some really great people coming on. everybody wants to be on of the you look at what happened to piers morgan and joan rivers and trace and everybody else. everybody benefits from "celebrity apprentice" and apprentice. >> steve: congratulations. a fantastic finale last night. >> thank you. >> steve: donald trump will be back on monday. >> good luck with all the scandals in washington. >> gretchen: thanks. >> brian: straight ahead, new york city's one of the top terror targets in the world. what's being done behind the scenes to prevent another 9-11? police commissioner ray kelly
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takes me on a tour and gives me a sense of an average day in his suv and his office. >> gretchen: did you have your man bag in that shot? >> brian: i think i did. >> steve: then you should have to prove you're looking for a job to collect unemployment check. or should the government take you at your word? that's coming up. >> gretchen: first here is the band perry from last night's billboard music awards. ♪ come on ♪ look what mommy is having.
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>> it is different. not necessarily easier. obviously maybe because you get used to some aspects of it. but the job has morphed, it's changed. certainly the world of terrorism and what we do to counter it has brought changes to the department, changes to our mindset. 9-11 was a watershed. it was clearly a game changer for certainly for this police department and other police departments as well. >> brian: here you are running this operation, bigger than anyone else in the world. so right now you see your role in that operation how? >> some people might say i'm a micro manager. you can't micromanage 51,000 people. so you pay attention to certain things. >> brian: kelly's day is busy. he begins this one with a highly secretive counterterrorism brief, gathering intelligence about the world wide threats that face the city.
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since the attacks of 9-11, new york has foiled 16 terror plots, a feat that gets very little attention. then it's on to local threats. today a man accused of going on a violent carjacking spree. >> six incidents, we have three cars, we have one attempted car. >> two.9ñáñç robberies. >> one attempted rob. one is an attempt. >> brian: but kelly is not your average commissioner. he's a cop's cop. born in new york, started as a cadet in the nypd before becoming a u.s. marine and serving in vietnam in 1965. >> my experience in the marine corps i found to be very, very positive to me. gave me discipline. it certainly taught me leadership skills, great institution. it's able to instill the values and principles in people, young people, and seems to stay with us the rest of your life. >> brian: on this day, kelly was
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paying tribute to different heros, those who lost their lives protecting the city of new york. [ applause ] >> brian: then on to a ceremonial lighting of the empire state building before getting back to his daily duties of policing the city. what's next for you, is another meeting of what's going on in the city? >> that's right. a big city. we have so many people here. we have a lot of things going on every day. that's what makes the job exciting. it's a full-time job. >> brian: he gave us a ride in his high-tech suv as he headed back to police heads quarters. this is not just an ordinary expedition, is it? >> we have a lot of equipment in this car. we want to be able to act as a temporary command post if something happens. we have fax machines. we have satellite, tv, phones. we have computers. so we have a way to communicate out of here.
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>> we're working. >> brian: this continues this afternoon, taking us inside one of the most important meetings, three times a week, he gathers back here, inside the executive command center, gathering with the senior executives of the nypd, listening to issues that clog up any organization of 51,000. it's a job kelly relishes and taking this job as new york police commissioner twice. the second time just four months after 9-11. at 72, you're still doing it. if asked to stay on, would you? if asked to run for mayor, would you? >> right now i'm focused totally on this job and this moment in time. >> brian: if you wanted to run for mayor, when would you make that decision? [ laughter ] >> gretchen: you got a chuckle out of him. he didn't want to answer. >> brian: all he had to say was no and that would have been fine. but i guess he's considering it. next hour, you'll get a look inside his command center as he views what it takes to fight the war on terror and shows a bag,
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>> gretchen: .1 billion, how much banks have not paid out in mortgage relief funds that the federal government mandated they pay out. less than half the total amount has actually been paid back. eleven cents. that's how much gas has gone up over the past few weeks. 3.66 a gallon is the average price. 7.8 million, that's how much star trek into darkness earned, landing it the number one spot at the box office on its opening weekend. it topped "ironman 3".
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steve? >> steve: thanks. the white house's chief lawyer learned weeks ago that the irs had targeted conservatives. so why did the president say he didn't find out about it until may 10? watching the news? joining us is a former special counsel to president bill clinton and author of "crisis tales," lannie davis. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: according to the "new york times" today, the white house chief counsel learned of the i.g.'s audit about a month ago. three weeks ago about the same time jack lew, who is currently the treasury secretary learned about it. what should happen to her? if she's the white house top lawyer, you would think she would say, hey, mr. president, we got a problem here. >> look, i'm second guessing somebody who is one of the most powerful positions in the white house. truly on a crisis management technique basis, she's a great
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lawyer. she has a lot of outstanding achievements in her life. i think she's in the wrong job, she doesn't see her job giving the president a heads up even before there are final conclusions just on a crisis management, media political basis, the president should say, i need a heads up just to be ready in case this develops. that's all i've said. she's in the wrong job if she doesn't see her position as a crisis manager as much as lawyer. >> steve: so if she got that information and she just sat on it and didn't tell anybody, should she be fired? >> i wouldn't say firing is the right word. >> steve: ask her to resign? >> no, i think she should recognize if she didn't see as a media ear and litcal ear this -- political ear this is a huge story that just in case the results come in where the irs did this political targeting, i need to give the president a heads up and plan for the crisis and hope it doesn't happen. that's the way a crisis manager thinks and she apparently hasn't
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had exposure. she may a great lawyer, but white house counsel is one of the most powerful positions in the white house and she may be in the wrong job. that's all i really wrote. >> steve: maybe this is the strategy of this white house, and that is to keep the president in the dark so that when something hits the fan, he can say, i saw it on the news, because we've been hearing a lot of that lately. >> i don't see the motive issue. i just think that she's a lawyer thinking like a lawyer and what i write in my book about being shamelessly mentioned crisis tales, is that a lawyer in the middle of a media political crisis has to think more than about the law. she may have said, look, we don't have a final report yet. therefore, i don't need to tell the president. that's the way a lawyer thinks. somebody in the white house has to think about media and politics and give jay carney, certainly the chief of staff, and the president a heads up. look, let's get ready just in case. now, i'm just constructively saying that's what i would like to see in a white house that has effective crisis management.
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i don't mean to be unkind or disrespectful to her because she's a great lawyer. >> steve: you know, harry truman said, the buck stops here, talking about the presidency of the united states. doesn't this ultimately rest at the desk of the president? >> the president has not been a great crisis manager. he's the president of the united states, but he's got to look ahead of the story, get ahead of the story. he really hasn't done that on a number of occasions. he's laid back, waited for others to define the message, and then he tries to react. i think -- i voted for him. i support him. but he's not great at getting out in front of a lot of these stories. but his popularity and approval ratings are unaffected by this. he may be doing this the right way and i may have the wrong advice here. >> steve: lannie davis joining us from the dc bureau, thank you very much. >> thanks. >> steve: straight ahead, you're looking live at a neighborhood destroyed by deadly tornadoes. just wiped out. we're going to take you there and tell you where storms are
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>> steve: fox news alert. we are following a second round of twisters that could be threatening people who live in the middle west today. check out this massive funnel cloud in shawnee, oklahoma late yesterday, just before a neighborhood was completely wiped out. in thank is where casey stegall is on the ground this morning of the good morning. >> good morning to you, steve and the rest of you. yeah, absolutely terrifying afternoon and evening here in oklahoma. really you had a couple of different cells that were spawning these tornadoes. i talked to the national weather service out of norman, oklahoma this morning. basically what happened is you had cells developing northeast of oklahoma city and then southeast of oklahoma city and these trekked eastward and they spun at least four different tornadoes. shawnee, oklahoma, we are now 30 miles southeast of oklahoma city, one of the areas hardest hit and where one of the fatalities, the only fatality at
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this point that's being reported. let me kind of set the scene back here behind you. you can see that there is a trailer home just back there that is still standing. all of the siding and everything ripped right off of it. but what you're seeing littered on the ground here is what's left of a second mobile home that was just right next door. but it was about 30 feet back. in fact, this same area went through a tornado in 2010 and the homeowners back there, who are now pilfering through what is left of their home, tell me that when that tornado came through, they wanted to anchor it down into concrete. that is what they did with hopes that it would survive another tornado. clearly it did not because it has been blown apart and there is nothing left. very dramatic pictures coming in from the storm chasers that captured these funnel clouds coming down out of the sky yesterday throughout all of this state. also we know tornadoes up in kansas and in iowa, but it seems as if oklahoma took the brunt of
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the damage. there are hundreds of homes that are damaged. absolutely terrifying and heart breaking. listen to this one woman. >> the wind blew the cellar door and then all of a sudden, everything just seemed like it went to pieces. everything i own. my pick up was sitting out there. my daughter's car. everything is gone. >> how do you even begin to console someone like that? we're standing here and we're watching these people dig through what was once their home and this is a story that is playing out all over the place, all over this region. and as you were saying, adding insult to injury, another round of severe storms headed this way later today. in fact, almost the exact same area here in oklahoma, along the
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exact same time line as yesterday. something we'll keep an eye on. these folks are trying to recover and with more storms on the way, what do you do, steve? >> steve: real quick question for you, in that part of the country, a lot of people don't have basements. so when a tornado comes, where do they go? >> you go into an interior hallway, into a bathroom where we typically tell people to go when a storm is headed their way. a lot of the people here in oklahoma do have storm shelters. if they don't have a basement, they may even have a storm shelter. i saw a local news report last night that the mobile home park right around the corner from where we are where the fatality was reported, that the mobile home park itself had a storm shelter and people hunkered down there. and that may be one of the reasons why the fatality count wasn't as high because really, steve, when you look at these images, and you see all of these tornadoes and we're talking about at least four tornadoes and pretty strong ones, we'll
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see if they were ef-3 or 4 later today once they get out here and survey the damage, it's really quite miraculous that the fatality count isn't higher. >> steve: all right. casey stegall live in shawnee, oklahoma. thank you. >> brian: maria molina is tracking the storm. how do i know that? because we have the tape. hey, maria. >> good morning, good to see you. just heart breaking taking a look at the images out of the oklahoma area. we're talking about more storms again today. we do have a moderate risk issued by the storm prediction center for parts of oklahoma. some of the same hard hit areas in oklahoma, parts of north central texas, arkansas, and across parts of missouri. we're looking at an elevated tornado threat out here. it's a very widespread risk in terms of people that can see strong to severe storms from texas into parts of the great lakes, damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour, large hail and tornadoes possible and because the storm system is such a slow mover, not only are we seeing the threat for similar areas, flash
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flooding is a risk, across parts of oklahoma, reports of it occurring across missouri. we'll see that threat extending into parts of wisconsin throughout the afternoon and even into tonight. >> gretchen: thanks so much. we'll pay close attention throughout the day. now the other stories making headlines. new overnight, 11 car bombs went off, 43 dead and more than 100 injured. nine of those bombs went off in baghdad at busy bus stops, markets, two more exploded in basra. one near a restaurant. no one claiming responsibility just yet. but the blasts bear the hallmark of al-qaeda. >> brian: brand-new audio from a moment right after a hostage student was shot and killed this weekend. >> with the hostages, shots. >> brian: the officer who shot andrea as he tried to save her from an armed intruder, he, by the way, is inconsolable. he's a 19-year veteran and the
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father of two children. he keeps replaying the tragedy in his mind and blames himself. he fired eight shots at the suspect and one hit andre. the other hit smith, wanted on a parole violation and had just gotten out of a very long prison stay. >> steve: terrible. meanwhile, working for unemployment check? if their proposal passes, the state would have one of the toughest job search requirements in the country. wisconsin currently requires the unemployed to check in twice a week. now we're talking four times. >> gretchen: one floridan, $600 million richer after winning the powerball ticket. florida law requires them to come forward. the win letter have to pay federal tax, but not state tax. the winner could either take the $590.5 million in installments or lump sum. you can see it there, more than
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375 million. after taxes, 282.7 million. wtbt's reporter joins us live from florida. when are we going to find out who got all of this money? >> hopefully at some point today. i can tell you this, one out of 175 million people could have won this. it turns out the golden ticket was sold there inside of this store in zephyr hills. $590.5 million. the city budget of zephyr hills is a little more than $49 million. the jackpot is 12 times that. the small city known for water and sky diving is now home to the largest powerball winner in history. in case you're wondering where it's at, it's about 45 minutes northeast of tampa. again, if they take that lump sum home, it's $270 million after taxes. what do you do with the money?
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how about buying a hockey franchise? or a house that's on the market in connecticut for 190 million. at 6:30, i mentioned i would give relatives a million dollars each relative. if i were to win. my brother called me. he was very angry. he said he wanted a lot more money. so albert, now that you're watching, i would give you 2 to 3 million. i hope that's enough, guys. >> steve: albert, your brother didn't win, so don't worry about it. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: you still had good intentions. we'll check back in with you. >> i tried. >> brian: some of the problems you get with winning the lotto. he didn't even win and he got problems. next, hope you like your beer room trample one state making ice cold brews against the law. we'll tell you the reason behind one of the most ridiculous regulations in the books. >> steve: first, here is justin bieber from last night's billboard music awards. ♪ bigger, stronger
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tape, republican strategist, nicky neily. good morning again. >> good morning. >> gretchen: i'm surprised about this law because mitch daniels is the governor of indiana. you would think that he would not approve of this kind of a regulation. tell us about it. >> sure. so it actually only applies to convenience stores. grocery stores and restaurants can sell cold beer, but convenience stores cannot. however, convenience stores can sell cold wine, which obviously has twice the alcohol. so it's really a goofy thing. >> gretchen: what's the impetus behind it? what are they trying to achieve? >> it seems like the impetus is temperance. if you buy warm beer from a convenience store, then you have to take it home and cool it, so you can't drink it immediately. so you can't get drunk in a parking lot unless you like warm beer, which most people don't. >> gretchen: doesn't it defeat the purpose, since you can get the cold ones at the grocery store? >> yes. absolutely. but there are people, the alcohol and beverage control people do go around and bust convenience stores for this this, which is surprising. and there are lawsuits that
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convenience stores don't like this. they feel it cuts into their business. one of the plaintiffs in it has said, we have not built new convenience stores in indiana since 2006 specifically because of this law. so not only is it obviously not serving the temperance goals, but really literally hurting jobs in indiana. >> gretchen: very interesting. what about if you want to be a florist in louisiana? there is a special thing you got to do to your roses and other things, right? >> yes. in louisiana you need to take a written test in order to become a licensed florist. every place that sells cut flowers needs to have a licensed florist on staff. and up until very recently, you needed to take not only the written test, but also a four our practical exam. thanks to the efforts for the institute of justice, the exam was struck from the bill. but you still -- the fact you need to take a test, it's the only state in the country that believes taking this written true and false test will protect the health and safety of state residents. >> gretchen: sounds like a money making venture for the test
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givers. let's talk about dog seatbelt laws in new jersey. what do you god to do to your pet if you want to take him in your car? >> to take your pet in the car, your pet must be restrained through a seatbelt or some other means. can't travel, can't be hanging out of the window, which my dog loves. and can't be in the back of a pick up truck. should you be found in violation of this, you are subject to a fine of 250 and $1,000 per incident. >> gretchen: this this been on the books for a long time? >> it's a newer one. it's something that the new jersey society for the prevention of cruelty to animals has been pushing. but again, is this really the first most important thing that new jersey residents, that is really threatening people's safety? probably not. >> gretchen: you never know what you're going to dig up. we appreciate it. we'll see you soon. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, "glee" star going one on one with her co-stars, asking them all a very personal question. she's here to reveal their answers next.
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>> steve: she has captured audiences as tina on the hit tv show, "glee," on fox. ♪ the lights are on ♪ there is no one home >> steve: now jenna is taking her talents offscreen. she's authored a new memoir called "choosing glee, ten rules
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to finding inspiration, happiness and the real you." she joins us right now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: i love "glee." but there is just too much singing on that show. [ laughter ] >> not enough, not enough. >> steve: that's right. why did you feel -- how old are you? >> 27. >> steve: at 27, you've already cracked the code to life, haven't you? >> i know everything. no. you know, it was one of those things where i was just really -- i felt like i had something to share with people. >> steve: you know what? you appeared on broadway at age three. you've had a great career. you've got some stuff. we're going to share some of your tips. first, you say ready, set, screw up! what's that mean? >> it's okay to make mistakes. it's how you get by in life. it's how you learn and go onward and upward. >> steve: you got to pick yourself up and do it again. >> exactly. >> steve: and you know what? that kind of ties in with number two, never say never. >> you have to allow yourself to open up to new opportunities,
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new things, and you never say never. it's like saying no to something that you've never tried before. you don't know until you try. >> steve: just not fair. meanwhile, at the end of whatever, take a bow. some people think you got to wait until you get an oscar or something big. you don't have to wait for that. >> no. you have to appreciate your support system and the little things around you. it's the little things that really make the world go round. you have -- sometimes i'm really hard on myself. it's a reminder for myself as well. >> steve: you got to be taking a bow over the fact you got this new book out. >> yeah. i will today. >> steve: very good. one of the things you do in the book is you talk to your cast mates from "glee" about what makes them happy. >> yeah. what they think happiness is or what their secret to happiness is. >> steve: all right. you've got a quotation from lea michelle. would you like to read what she said? >> absolutely. being yourself is the key to true happiness. i've always stuck true and done what i believe in and always put a smile on my face.
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>> steve: very nice. somebody you work with every week on "glee" is actually going to be here on broadway. we're talking about jane lynch who plays that gym teacher. she's going to play miss hannigan in "annie." any advice for her? >> you know, it's a tough schedule, so save your voice as much as you can and just enjoy it because every night is so different. i know she will. she's going to be absolutely amazing. she's pretty much born to play that role. >> steve: how many performances do you do when you're working on broadway a week? >> eight timberwolf on wednesday normally and two on saturday. >> steve: what day do you rest? >> monday, that's when you're dark. >> steve: you and think she would probably do okay because she's regarded by you as -- here is the quotation, the toughest chick she knows. >> she is a tough chick. and i think she's going to be wonderful. >> steve: very nice. you got this great new book, good for kids and adults, it's
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called "choosing glee, ten rules to finding happiness, inspiration and the real you." thank you very much. >> thank you. >> steve: good luck to you. >> thank you. >> steve: and by the way, speaking of jane lynch, she'll be joining us next hour dishing about her new role on broadway. >> brian: all right. you love broadway. >> steve: what's not to love? >> brian: i agree. she was used to spin the truth on benghazi, lying to the american people. but the white house says the american people owe susan rice an apology. what do you think about that? and i'm going to go inside one of the most busy centers in the country. how ray kelly is stopping terrorists in their tracks so far. >> steve: they let you loose in there? >> brian: they did ♪ roundup
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>> gretchen: good morning, everything. today is monday, may 20, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. hope you're gonna have a fantastic day. let's start with a fox news alert. >> we were sitting out there. my daughter's car, everything gone. >> gretchen: at least one person is dead. 20 more injured after tornadoes tear through three states in america's heartland. we're live on the ground with the latest on where the storms are headed next. >> steve: she lied to the american people on five sunday shows in a row, but the white house says it's the republicans now who owe susan rice an apology. does that make sense to you? we're going to discuss it. >> brian: did you see this? this move last night? the sing who are did a split on a fan's head. music a contact sport. "fox & friends" starts now.
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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. let's get to that weather fox news alert. >> oh, my god! that's damage! >> are you shooting that? >> i'm all over it! windows up! don't drop down! >> gretchen: storm catchers capturing footage of tornadoes ripping through america's hard land. shaun yeah, oklahoma -- shawnee, 35 miles southeast of oklahoma city is where rick reichmuth now is on the ground. you finally made it will after driving throughout the night. the same area expected to get hit again today. >> yeah. two days in a row of severe weather. it's not issued that often, probably 15 to 20 times a year anywhere in the u.s. we've second day in a row right
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here. insult on injury to folks who lost so much since last night in this one tornado. this tornado cut right across i-40, shawnee, by i-40. this community here, trailer park, is very, very damaged. about 75% of the homes were damaged. i'm getting that figure from michelle hoak, who i have right here. you are the secretary of the association here and you rode out this storm in your storm shelter last night. what was that experience like? >> very scary. i wouldn't wish it upon anybody else. but we're thankful we had our storm shelter and we have our lives. we can rebuild. everything else is replaceable. >> you and your husband and kids were in your storm shelter, but your parents also live right here. and tell me about their experience. >> they were in their house and as soon as we came out and realized it was over, i ran straight over to their house and took them to the hospital.
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>> do you know the the extent of their injuries? >> they're both sore. they both have spinal fractures. >> we're so sorry to hear that. you've been through this before. you live here. you've seen tornadoes. does it become regular? is it always frightening? do you expect it? are you prepared? >> we're prepared. every year we update our pictures of everything for our insurance and everything. i mean, it's quite a life living in oklahoma. we moved here from colorado. but we expect it. >> you had plenty of warning yesterday. the local channels were covering this. do you feel like for everybody in your community, that they knew what was coming? >> as long as they were watching the news. we were in our shelter a good 20 minutes before it hit, just because we saw that it left norman and headed right this way. we went ahead and got down there. we didn't want to get hit by hail. so we played it safe. >> we're not able to get back in there. we hear there is still search and rescue going on. so they blocked the media from
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getting back in there. what do you know about all the rest of the people who are in this community? >> i've actually talked to quite a few of the people, being the secretary. quite a few are okay. as far as search and rescue, they won't even let me back there. my husband went back to try to get our son's medicine, which wasn't to be found. >> do you feel you're ready for today? >> as far as? >> for another round potentially of storms. >> well, we've lost everything. so we have nothing else really to lose. >> listen, you're obviously on -- in our prayers. a community like this, you need lots of support. there will be lots of support coming in. i see water already being distributed. best of luck to you in the coming days. >> thank you. >> thanks so much for joining us. that's the story right here in shawnee. lots of damage. i'm sure within an hour we're hearing we'll be able to get back in and get more shots. at this point, still search and rescue operations going on. >> steve: grim. all right. thank you very much, rick.
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>> gretchen: thanks. now to your other headlines. before get there, by the way, mike pence is the governor of indiana. mitch dabbles was. i moss spoke -- misspoke. a crash caught on camera. a second person has died, 23 others are injured. the accident happened during a sightseeing tour. this is in the country of turkey. it's not the first time a hot air balloon has gone down this year. just a few months ago, one caught fire and crashed in egypt, killing 19 people. shocking video taken moments after two commuter trains collided in connecticut. >> check that out. the track, like it's off the track. >> gretchen: a witnesãcaptured the tense moments on camera during friday rush hour. one woman being carried out of the train by other passengers. at least 76 people were hurt, but no one was killed. traffic still delayed this week as crews clean up all that wreckage. one lucky floridian is
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$600 million richer after winning the powerball jackpot. the person's identity will not stay secret for long. residents in the location can't wait to find out who struck it rich. >> to know somebody won right here, right at home it's a real good feeling. >> it makes us famous for not just water. >> it's really interesting to see something that knives the it's like i know the person and i don't. it's so close. >> gretchen: the winner will have to pay federal tax, but not state tax. the lucky winner, since florida has no state income tax. the winner can either take the money in installment or lump sum of 376.9 million, 282.7 million after taxes. >> brian: now the big story. >> gretchen: music's biggest -- i love my gallery. music's biggest stars turned out for the billboard music awards
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last night. ♪ i don't know about you ♪ but i'm feeling prettyo>ñ)e g ♪ everything will be all right ♪ . >> gretchen: taylor swift was a big winner, walking away with eight awards, including artist of the year. justin bieber had an interesting night. >> this is not a gimmick. i'm an artist and i should be taken seriously. >> gretchen: well, he won three awards, but he was net meth with boos when he went to accept the milestone award. one singer gets painfully up close and personal with a fan. watch this. ♪ . >> gretchen: miguel tried jumping from one stage to another, landed on a fan's head. he later tweeted that the woman
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is okay. >> brian: like hulk hogan. that's what he did in 1978. >> steve: did ivan sue? >> brian: i'm not sure, but i know he had a great singing voice. miguel put his arm around somebody else when he finished his number. >> gretchen: apparently she is okay. he tweeted that she was fine. >> brian: what is the right thing to do? write us. if you're performing on an international award show and you accidentally -- >> gretchen: somebody butt lands on you? >> brian: and you accidentally try to straddle a person and doesn't work. >> gretchen: you don't do that move again, probably. >> brian: probably not. but do you say are you okay or do you continue with the song? do you think he was callus to continue? >> steve: like jeffen said, i don't -- gretchen said, i don't think he'll do it again. >> brian: you're like the white house. >> steve: i don't think they'll send dan pheiffer out like they did yesterday. they said he was going to clarify what's going on. look. they've got all sords of scandals brewing in this
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administration and they had to send somebody out. so what's interesting is at one point, and god bless him, he tried his best to spin them out of the hole they're in. but here is one sound bite where he said it's those darn republicans who owe an apology to ambassador susan rice who lied on five shows. watch. >> i think many of the republicans who have been talking about this, now that they've seen the e-mails, owes ambassador rice an apology for the things they said about her in the wake of the attack, for accusing her of misleading the country, for saying she didn't -- that somehow she was involved in some sort of political white wash of what happened. she said is what the intelligence community believed at the time. >> brian: let me tell you something, one thing in the e-mails they released, there was no mention of the videos. so we missed hundreds of e-mails in between. maybe some that go back to the white house. two, they were so watered down, he blames the c.i.a. fort final results that susan rice reiterated on all the shows.
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yeah, the c.i.a. signed off on them, but you know what? the c.i.a.'s director at the time, david petraeus, essentially said this after he got these back and seen how they changed with the state department's urging and said, why even bother? that's how different they were from the facts as they knew them. we had intercepts that showed we knew the group. we actually told the president of libya, the al-shariah was behind it. the attack that day, the next day. >> gretchen: it's just erroneous to say it was the c.i.a. because we know, we've seen proof all of last week. i just think this is proof that maybe this administration is used to being able to say what it wants and in the past had not been challenged that much. but now they're actually being challenged. the other big thing, is why did they send out dan pheiffer? just like why did they send out susan rice? these were not the top ranking people who should have been answering the questions. these are not the people who
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should be responding. it should be the chief of staff. it should have been the secretary of defense or the secretary of state when susan rice was there. so i ask this morning, why do they send out these people? >> brian: bob schieffer said the same thing yesterday. he said, why am i talking to you? >> steve: what are you doing here? >> brian: what are you doing here? >> steve: in the case of susan rice, she went on because hillary clinton didn't want to have to tell that lie. >> brian: we don't know that. >> steve: i'm just connecting my own dots. listen, there are so many people in the media saying, we really had high hopes for this guy, nobody bigger than chris matthews and as he surveyed the wreckage of the administration last week, he made this observation. >> what part of the presidency does obama like? he doesn't like dealing with other politicians. that means his own cabinet. that means members of congress. he doesn't particularly like the press. what part of it does he like? he likes speeches. what part does he really like? he likes going on the road campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple of
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days, somewhere in ohio or somewhere. what part does he like? he doesn't like lobby for the bills he cares about. he doesn't like selling to the press to get their stories out there. does he like actually giving somebody the power to give orders? he doesn't like to be an executive. >> why does he have guests on that show? he does all the talking. >> brian: looks like he temporarily, for a day, lost chris matthews. so far, believe it or not, through all these crieses, a new poll is out. the president still has 53% approval. >> gretchen: i think that's startling. that is startling since there has been actually a lot of press about these particular scandals and yet, are people really paying attention? or they just don't believe that the president has any involvement at all. let us know what you think. quick, somebody call the pc police. one school is banning the celebration of mothers and father's day because it makes some kids sad. is that the right thing to do? >> steve: and then o. j. simpson has a new plan to make money if he ever gets out of jail.
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dogged by scandals. dan pheiffer hit the air waves speaking on five sunday shows in an attempt to contain the damage. when asked about the legality of the irs targeting conservatives, here is what mr. pheiffer had to say. >> i can't speak to the law here, the law is irrelevant. the activity was outrage us and stopped and it needs to be fixed so it never happens again. >> steve: joining us is fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. who is a lawyer. is that the first time you've ever heard from an administration official that the law is irrelevant? >> i've heard that like on hogan's heros or the regional road show of the west wing, or some show like that. is he kidding me? >> steve: no! >> is he kidding america? relevancy means a direct bearing on the issue at hand. so if you don't think the constitution is important, it's not relevant. if you think you've been reelected and it doesn't really matter, it's not relevant. if you think you're more important than everyone else,
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it's not relevant. if you think you're a washington elite, then it's not relevant. if you think you are a lot smarter and the american people are stupid, then it's not relevant. they're trying to sell the same nonsense that soup rice sold with regard to benghazi. he also said it wasn't relevant where the president was on the night of the attack and the fact that he went to las vegas. so it's not relevant where the miswas. it's not relevant that the irs is looking at people's tea party affiliations and violating their first amendment rights. it's not relevant that the attorney general's office decided to snoop on the ap, the nation's wire service in a violation of the first amendment arguably. none of these things are relevant. so bob schieffer, as you guys pointed out before said to mr. pheiffer, who are you? what the heck are you -- >> steve: why am i stuck with you? >> why are you here and why are you running this nonsense? and they're still running this benghazi nonsense yesterday that
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somehow with susan rice said was based on the intelligence? that's a lie. >> steve: flat out. >> just say it. i mean, say it. it's a lie. >> steve: it is a lie. peter, mitch mcconnell was on one of the shows yesterday and he says what this administration has done in the past, it's all part of a culture of intimidation. listen. >> there is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration. the irs is just the most recent example. what we're talking about here is an attitude that the government knows best. the nanny state is here to tell us all what to do. >> david gregory tried to blow him off on that and he couldn't achieve it because anyone who is watching what's gone on the last few weeks will realize that it's, in fact, true. we need the president to give a speech about these three events and say this is what happened. this is ha i know. this is why i didn't know it. i'm sorry for not knowing it. and it is relevant because it goes to the heart of trust of our government in this country.
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for these block heads to continue to say that irrelevant, that you p are smoking some kind of whacky toe tobacco, that is not relevant. this is relevant. this goes to the heart of the constitution and our future. h & r block head comes to the irs. wrong. wrong. >> steve: peter johnson, jr. is on fire this morning! >> wrong. come on. tell the true. >> steve: all right. peter johnson, jr., thank you. >> truth. truth. truth. >> steve: 20 minute after the top of the hour. up next, it's one of the largest and most sophisticated anti-terror centers in the entire country and brian got a rare glimpse inside. that's coming up next. then, can actress jane lynch do our job? she tries. find out what happens when "glee"'s jane lynch stops by our show live
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>> brian: if i told you there was a crime at 12:00 o'clock last wednesday, you would be able to, on this camera, on broadway and 34th, you'd be able to go back to that time? >> yes. >> brian: see who was standing at that place? >> yes, and we'd be able to do it quickly. >> brian: the big picture, you're a guy who is in his 70s. but priding yourself perhaps on being and knowing what the latest technology is 'cause you believe technology does what in the war on terror? >> well, the first multiplier, it helps fill in the gaps and still reduce crime with 6,000 fewer police officers. >> brian: you have 6,000 fewer police officers right now than from how long ago? >> 11 years ago. >> brian: yet the terror threat has never been greater. >> well, it certainly hasn't diminished. >> brian: in 1993, you're commissioner and you see and hear about explosions in the
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basement of the world trade center. how did that affect you and was that your first exposure to radical islam? >> we didn't necessarily know it was a terrorist attack immediately when we got there. it was a big hole in the basement of the world trade center, smoke was pouring out, people were evacuating the building, six people were killed, over 1,000 injured. but as the day went on, as intelligence came in, it became clear that it was a terrorist event. i think that should have been a huge wake-up call for all of us. it really wasn't. >> brian: commissioner, i think everyone is talk about boston now. there has been a lot of other things going on. but people focused back on boston. you have a marathon where somebody puts down a backpack in two separate places and in a matter of moments, over 200 people are hurt. three lose their lives. over 30 people lose their limbs. what do you learn from that?
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>> every city has vulnerabilities. we certainly do. i hate to say this, but certainly something similar could happen in new york, and could happen in any city. it's the world in which we live. >> brian: the f.b.i. had information on the killers and they never told the boston police. a lot of americans look at that and are frustrated. are you guys past that communication wise? >> no, initially when they did the questioning, they found out that these individuals were coming back or talked about -- wanted to come back to new york and detonate the remaining bombs at times square. we wanted to know that right away. >> brian: a lot of people say you're close with the c.i.a. than you are with the f.b.i. and you formed your own units in order to be more autonomous. if you're going to be commissioner, you got to be responsible for yourselves. >> well, you can't count on the federal government alone. we need to supplement what they're doing. we certainly need the federal government. we need the resources. >> brian: you need the f.b.i.?
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>> we need the f.b.i. without a doubt. but we, because of our sort of unique status as being the number one target, having been targeted 16 times, we need to supplement that. >> brian: you have 1,000 counter terror agencies just focusing on terrorism. >> we have people every day working on counterterrorism. we have expanded our reach. we're the number one target. >> brian: what he does is he puts people on all these different countries, but we're not paying for it. the police foundation pays for it to put them there and put them in all these different nations where they have a view. these are my words, not his. i sense that there is still friction between the nypd and f.b.i and when he got in there, he said, i don't care who wins this, i just got to make sure we're safe. that's why he had to expand the way he did. >> steve: it's great you took us inside the command center. folks can see there are cameras everywhere. >> brian: there is a bigger one downtown, but i thought this was a little bit more visual. that one is with private
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>> brian: fox news alert. we're following a second round of twisters, that's right, a second round threatening people who live in the midwest today. check out this massive funnel cloud you're seeing to the left there. in shawnee, oklahoma. yesterday just before a neighborhood was completely wiped out, you're looking at what it looked like as it was zeroing in. >> steve: that's where shawnee is, where fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is and where he has just witnessed a rescue. you're there with the survivor, bent over looking at whom? >> yeah. his name is monster. take a look at monster right here.
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apparently the sheriff's deputies were out here going through all the neighborhood back behind us and they found and buried in debris, in a dog cage, they got him rescued. he's got mud on his nose and feet. he's been a really great dog apparently all night. they're going to take him to a local animal shelter. he has his collar on and a tag. so that's good news. i want to bring in and talk with randy tom, you are the county commissioner here. you have just been back in the neighborhood. what can you tell us about some of the damage you've seen? >> devastating. i think we've got approximately 30 to 35 homes destroyed. this is one of our incidents we have going on in the county at this time. we have another one over west and one up in northern part of the county. >> we've heard of the fatality. was it in this community right back here? >> yes, sir, it was. last night we did recover one fatality. there were six injured.
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again, this morning at 8:00 o'clock, we'll bring our search dogs back around and do one more final sweep and make sure we've got it all. last night at 12:30, we did have a full count on everybody. >> you did. we heard a story of a couple that were missing. >> they were accounted for, yes, sir. >> they were. you obviously are from this area and you guys have tornadoes. something like yesterday, was it surprising? was it extra scary? did it feel different than other times? >> no. our weather men around the state are fantastic and as a matter of fact, i followed the tornado in on the backside. i mean, i knew it was coming and almost got trapped in between the one behind it, though. so yeah. we have fantastic weather people here. >> people have not been able to get back into this community during the overnight. everybody was out of it. at what point can people get back in and starting to through their belongings and see what's left of their places? >> again, what we'll do is do our last final sweep to make sure and then start letting our
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local law enforcement, check them in because they know who lives here and who doesn't. and after we make sure that we've got everything out of here, we'll start letting them get in here and get their belongings. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning of the best of luck to you today. all right. one more day they have to get through of storms in this area and certainly hoping they don't see the exact same thing. i can tell you it's humid here and there is a lot of clear skies. those are the ingredients you need for more unstability and bad weather. we're expecting to see that start around the same time line today, 2 and 3:00 o'clock this afternoon. guys? >> steve: all right. rick out there in shawnee. we thank you very much. where exactly can they expect trouble this afternoon? maria molina has been tracking the tornado outbreak and joins us with the latest. >> hi, good morning. the storm system is a very slow mover. so many of the same areas that saw severe storms over the weekend are expected to see another round of it. the greatest risk area shaded in red, highlighted by the storm prediction center as a moderate
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risk, parts of oklahoma where you saw the images that rick brought to us, north central parts of texas, missouri, even parts of arkansas. but overall, a very widespread area that could see strong to severe storms from texas up into the great lakes. because we're continuing to see more storms over the same areas, the ground is already saturated. that means that we could potentially see some flooding with some of these storms. flash flood threats include areas from oklahoma up in through parts of wisconsin. steve, gretchen and brian. >> gretchen: thank you very much. we got to get to other stories. new overnight, 11 car bombs detonated in iraq, leaving 57 dead and more than 100 injured. nine went off in baghdad at bus stops and markets. two more exploded in basra. one near a restaurant. no one claiming responsibility. but it looks like it could be al-qaeda. brian? >> brian: brand-new audio leased from the moment right after a hofstra student was shot and killed. >> shot with the hostages and the gunman.
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>> brian: the officer who shot the girl as he tried to save her from an armed intruder is inconsolable. the cop is a 19-year veteran and a father of two young children. he fired eight shots at the suspect. one hit andrea. the other seven hit smith, who was wanted on parole violations and just got out of prison for robbery. >> steve: meanwhile, it's the next big frontier in the battle for consumer privacy. your medical data. everything from your medical history to even your shopping habits at the pharmacy shared without you knowing it. >> gretchen: gerri willis has more for us this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning, good morning. >> gretchen: so now we're going to be able to have access, but more importantly, other people will have access to our medical records? >> let me tell you, you have no control over your medical records. that's what i'm finding out. i've been looking at this for some time now. whether it's your prescription data, information from a stay at a hospital, the information with your insurance, it's all out there. it's being shared and it's being
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sold. so it starts at the doctor's office. it starts at the hospital. but then before you know it, it's being sold to pharmacies. it's moving to marketers, to retailers. it's all over the place. obamacare's requirement for electronic sharing of this information will make it even more. >> steve: what's this card in your hand? >> i brought my pharmacy louse e items that is allowing people, well, companies really, to share your information. these cards track people in stores, everything you buy. these cards follow you. you like it because you get a discount. but at the end of the day, they track your every single move. so this information goes to doctors, hospitals, obviously, but data clearing houses, retail pharmacy managers. your employer. if you're applying for a job out there, information about your private health may go to those people. >> brian: the push back is they want to be able to do that in order to keep you healthy and if you live in wisconsin and get hurt if florida, they'd like to be able to log on and see how you've been treated.
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>> well, they'd like to see how you've been treated. but how would you feel if you were applying for a job and somebody found out that you failed a test for, say, precancer? that would be a disaster. >> gretchen: i thought there was a thing called hppa. you see those signs. they say -- one patient at a time at the desk for that very reason, for privacy. >> brian: i thought it meant the doctor was italian. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: how does that change everything or how does that factor into obamacare? >> look, there is a hppa rule, but here is what happens. health and human services recently conducted an audit of health companies and what they found is nobody is abiding by this. they don't know about it, they don't understand what they're supposed to do and sharing information all over the place. >> steve: is injure suggestion next time -- your suggestion to if they say do you have a customer courtesy card, say no, i don't? >> you have to be in charge of your own medical data. to the degree you can, you have to make sure you keep it to yourself. if you don't get five bucks off of your next sale at the
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pharmacy, maybe that's okay. >> steve: pay cash, 'cause otherwise they could track with you a credit card. >> that's right. >> steve: we'll be watching you on the business network. >> thank you. >> brian: at 6:00 o'clock weeknights. >> steve: and 9:00 o'clock. she's busy. >> brian: she is. straight ahead, where was the president during the aftermath of the benghazi terrorist attack? the white house says it's irrelevant. michael mccall disagrees next. >> steve: then can jane lynch do our job? find out what happens when she tried. jane lynch here live. >> kevin, still eating chalk for heartburn? enjoy the relief! inintroducing g the greatt weekekend sale a at hotwire.e. any y weekend hohotel stay,, anywywhere, whenen you bookk a hohotwire hot t rate. the e great weekekend
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>> steve: quick monday morning headlines. o. j. simpson hoping to cash in if he's ever released from prison. he's reportedly already planning a speak tour to lucky college students. today a judge is going to decide whether to overturn his sentence for, as you know, a hotel robbery. and a school in canada banning the celebration of mothers and father's day. officials say it's because it's not fair to some kids who have two moms or dads or just one parent. instead, the school will hold an international day of family. all right. gretch, over to you and a special guest. >> gretchen: thanks very much. it's been more than eight months since four americans, including our ambassador were killed in benghazi. but the white house still seems to be sidestepping questions about the attack, including about where the president of the united states was as things were unfolding. >> he was in constant touch that night with his national security
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team and kept up with events. he was talking to his national security staff, his national security council, or people who keep him up to date about these things. >> was he? the ways room? >> he was kept up to date throughout the day. >> do you not know whether he was in the situation room? >> i don't remember what room the president was in. that's a largely irrelevant fact. >> gretchen: joining me is texas congressman, mccall, good morning to you. >> thanks. >> gretchen: do you believe for a minute that dan pheiffer does not know where the president of the united states was on the night of the benghazi attack? >> absolutely not. they have the records. they have the schedules, the phone calls. they knew what the president of the united states was doing that night and the real question here is where was the president of the united states when benghazi burned, when the u.s. ambassador to the united states was assassinated? there has been no clear answer to this. that's what we're seeking.
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>> gretchen: is it offensive to you that dan pheiffer would call this whole thing irrelevant? >> we haven't had an ambassador killed in 30 years. and the idea that that's irrelevant plays into this narrative that they sweep it under the rug, al-qaeda is on the run, whether it be this case, whether it be the boston bombings where they say there is no foreign connection, whether they say it's benghazi, there is nothing there, or the workplace violence from fort hood, you know, they won't even call that an act of terrorism. it's deeply disturbing to me that they can't define the enemy because to counter the enemy, you have to define the enemy. >> gretchen: i want to get to the workplace violence situation in fort hood in just a moment, but first, you did speak to the acting c.i.a. director, correct, about the talking points, because dan pheiffer yesterday also said something that was totally erroneous, which was the c.i.a. was solely responsible
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for those talking points, which we've seen that's not the case. the state department and the white house had influence. what did mike morell tell you? >> somewhat confidentially, but his reports were that the analysts gave these talking points. he did edit them and then they went up the chain. i find it hard to believe, just based upon common sense, that there wasn't some machinations going on in the state department to change the theme of this to be not one of an act of terrorism, but rather a video. so i think that's our ongoing examination in the congress about benghazi. these are going to be tough questions. now, i think he's testifying before the intelligence committee. always in secret. but i'm on foreign affairs. they will be out and open. i question secretary clinton the last opportunity she had to testify before congress was on
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our committee in foreign affairs and asked her several things. i said, one, you had a march warning. you had a may warning about security. you were hit twice. one with an ied in the consulate and then the august 16th cable that came out, a cry for help, if you will, emergency meeting by the ambassador, which largely went ignored. that's the criminal thing here. >> gretchen: so so many unanswered questions there. on the department of justice and any role that they could have in changing the description of what happened at fort hood from workplace violence to an act of terror, why won't they do that and is it their possibility? -- responsibility. >> it is their responsibility. i've worked very hard with frank wolf and others, writing letters to the secretary of the army. i was there on the day of the funeral, ceremony. it was very emotional. i saw the soldiers on crutches
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who were shot by mr. hassan. and the best evidence. i said, what did he say to you when you were shot? allah akbar. that's the classic jihaddist terminology. then i realized, this is not some workplace violence. this is elevated to a whole new level and when you look at the e-mail exchanges between mr. hasan and ahacky, who was at that time arguably the biggest terrorist in the world. >> gretchen: we'll have to see how it plays out. congressman, thanks so much for your time. >> it was not workplace violence. >> gretchen: that's what it's being labeled. from "glee" to morning tv, can jane lynch do our job? she's here next. but first let's check in with martha. >> a tornado update. where the next watch or touchdown could happen. dan pheiffer says what really matters about these scandals is just that we make sure that it never happens again. is that enough?
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congress is not so sure and tea party groups are now ramping up their legal fight. brit hume joins us with a monday morning look at what happens now and bill and i will see you at the top of the hour.
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♪ little girls, little girls ♪ everywhere i turn ♪ i can see them ♪ . >> steve: that is actress jane lynch on "glee" giving everybody a taste of the big number she's currently singing on broadway as miss hannigan in "the annie" and the emmy winning actress joins us. >> good morning to you. >> steve: you haven't been on "glee" that much this year. >> no. i was in every other episode. i was really happy to be doing a show eight times a week.
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>> gretchen: now you're playing miss hannigan. it's a great show. you don't have to be a kid to love this. >> it's great. it's one hit after another in terms of the music and the book is so good. it's a really great american musical. >> gretchen: so you're changing your role on "glee." you'll come back, right? >> yeah. >> gretchen: your role has changed? >> right now -- i was fired. i was fired. i was fired for bringing a lowed gun to school. but actually, i took the fall for becky, my lieutenant, who has down syndrome. so now i started a new life at the 23 hour fitness. >> steve: you're also moonlighting as a morning show anchor. watch this. >> yes. >> hello, lovely audience. hello. today my guest is someone you may know. someone who you may equally appreciate and fear. please welcome michael, silver painted street performer.
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